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| Satvir Kaur | Sonia kaur Kumar | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | Gurinder Singh Josan | Preet Kaur GIll |
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| Dr Jeevun Sandher | Harpreet Kaur Uppal | Warinder Jass | Jas Athwal | Kirith Entwistle |
Los Angeles/July 08, 2024
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/A.Gary Singh
In a landmark achievement, ten Sikhs have been elected to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons, marking a historic moment for the Sikh community worldwide.
The newly elected MPs are:
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Preet Kaur Gill, Kirith Entwistle, Gurinder Singh Josan, Jas Athwal, Dr.Jeevun Sandher, Warinder S. Juss, Satvir Kaur, Harpreet Kaur Uppal, and Sonia Kaur Kumar.
This victory not only highlights their individual accomplishments but also symbolizes the progress and representation of Sikhs in the political landscape of the UK....Read More
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NRI Preet Gill MP, UK meet security minister
over safety of Sikhs living in Britain
London, Feb 27
, 2024
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
A cross-party group of MPs is set to meet with the government’s security minister on Tuesday over the safety of Sikh activists living in the United Kingdom.
Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill said concerns were raised after an “intelligence hit list” appeared on several Indian media channels.
Preet Kaur Gill said that the list talked about twenty Sikhs who don’t live in India referring to them as enemies of the country, She said that 6 British Sikhs were named, with some now under police protection. She explained that some Sikh activists have been contacted by police to tell them their lives were in danger.
The letters – also known as Osman warnings – are issued if officers become aware of an immediate and real threat to somebody’s life. Sikh activists had threats, harassment and intimidation, said the MP for Birmingham Edgbaston.
She said that those are the levels of concerns “We are seeing about transnational repression and seeing different countries trying to further their ideologies here in Britain by suppressing peoples’ voices and their right to speak up on human rights violations.”
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NRI Preet Gill, MP, UK, posts video on Twitter-
Sidhu Moose Wala's '295' Song pre-closing ceremony
of Commonwealth Games 2022
London, Aug 09, 2022
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
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MP Preet Kaur Gill on Twitter posted video of the stadium with Moosewala’s songWatch Video.......Click HereThe Birmingham Commonwealth Games reached a high-octane conclusion on Monday by celebrating 11 days of compelling competition and sending the multi-sport event back to Australia in 2026 with new relevance and purpose……according to Reuters. |
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Bhangra performance from ‘Apache Indian':
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Sidhu Moosewala’s song ‘295’ was also included in the closing ceremony of Commonwealth Games at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.
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Hit number 'Mundian To Bach Ke' with a performance by Lions of Punjab, a Midlands-based Punjab Bhangra dance group. model-cum-activist Neelam Gill, who was driven in a yellow MG, while Punjabi MC played out ‘Mundiyan To Bach Ke' to a packed stadium,
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More than 4,500 athletes competed from 72 countries over the past 11 days at the games.
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NRI UK MP puts new tweet after Indian high
commission expresses concern
London, Dec.22, 2021
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
NRI UK's first Sikh female member of Parliament and member of the shadow cabinet, Preet Kaur Gill, came under fire on social media over a tweet she later deleted that referred to a “Hindu terrorist” behind the act of violence at Golden Temple in Amritsar.
An unidentified man was beaten to death at Sikhism’s holiest shrine Golden Temple in Amritsar Saturday evening after he allegedly attempted to desecrate the Guru Granth Sahib. He allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act by trespassing into an inner shrine, according to local media reports.
“While the employees were taking him to the office, some of the other devotees present in the shrine beat him up so much that he died upon reaching the office,” according to the Hindustan Times.
Indian high commission said:
- It is "concerned at the effect that such commentary by a foreign MP may have on inter-communal harmony and peace in the British Indian community."
- The MP later deleted the previous tweet and she wrote in 2nd tweet, "Beadbi incidents are unacceptable but the lynching of another person is also unacceptable and no one should take matters into their own hands. We need a full enquiry into these matters. @SGPCAmritsar @PMOIndia"
- She deleted previous Twitter post read: “Hindu terrorist prevented from an act of violence at the Sikh Holy shrine of Harminder Sahib (Golden Temple) against Sikhs.”
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NRI Sikh Preet Kaur Gill made British history-
first ever female Sikh MP promoted to Shadow Minister 
Gill says her father is the main source of inspiration.
London, Jan. 13, 2018
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
On June 08, 2017, Preet Kaur Gill, 44, won MP seat in Birmingham Edgbaston, UK for Labour Party with 24,124 votes – nearly 7,000 more than her nearest competitor, Conservative Caroline Squire. She was the first female British Sikh MP.
On 12 January 2018, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet as International Development Minister. The Shadow Cabinet is the team of senior spokespeople chosen by the Leader of the Opposition to mirror the Cabinet in Government. Each member of the shadow cabinet is appointed to lead on a specific policy area for their party and to question and challenge their counterpart in the Cabinet.
- Preet Kaur has pledged to make the NHS (National Health Service), education, jobs, policing and funding for local infrastructure and services her priorities.
- In 2012, she was elected as a councilor for Sandwellropolitan Borough Council and was re-elected in the 2016 local election. On the council she has served as the Cabinet Member for Public Health and Protection
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As of April 2017, she was a member of the Jo Cox Women In Leadership training programme, set up by Labour in honour of the Batley and Spen MP who was murdered last year, and reaction to her selection has so far been positive.
- She said her passion for politics was inspired by her late father and his close friend Lord King, who became the first Sikh peer in the UK.
- “I am delighted I have been given the opportunity to become the next MP for Edgbaston where I was born and raised,” she added.
- “I want to engage with the people of Edgbaston and with hard work, passion and determination I think we can achieve great things together.”
Education:
- She graduated from UEL (University of East London) with a first-class degree in sociology and social work.
- Post graduation she chose to travel and consequently lived in a Kibbutz in Israel and worked with street children in Delhi.
- She went to Lordswood Girls' School and Bournville College.
- At college she was elected student president.
Preet Kaur Gill was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, to Daljeet Singh Shergill and Kuldeep Kaur Shergill. Her father was president of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick and credits goes her father as Lord King (first Sikh life peer in the House of Lords) as her main inspiration for her later ambition to enter politics. Her mother worked as a seamstress. Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick is the largest Gurdwara in Europe, three storeys high building with area of about 70,000 square metres
She is married to Sureash Chopra and they have two daughters.
Being the eldest daughter of six children there was a cultural and familial expectation for her and she says that her father is her main source of inspiration. When I lost my father three years ago, it was his dream for me to become a Member of Parliament, and I knew then that this was something I really wanted to do…...........Preet Gill MP for Edgbaston
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Her Father Daljit Singh Shergill:
| Daljit Singh Shergill | August 1944 – 6 October 2014), known as Shergill Sahib, Great work by Daljit Singh Shergill left a Legacy Behind |
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As a Sikh Leader in UK, Daljit Singh Shergill was also the longest leading President of the 1st Gurdwara in the UK.He become president of the Smethwick Gurdwara in 1984,Chairman of the council of Sandwell Sikh Gurdwara’s in UK, Chairman of the national Sikh Gurdwaras, Chairman of the SYCC (Smethwick Youth Community Centre) and President of the Sikh Welfare association in the UK.Daljit Singh Shergill was the President of Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick and was one of the main organisers in the UK for Sikh events.
Mr Shergill had dedicated much of his life to selfless service of the Sikh community. Speaking to a BBC interviewer, he is quoted to have said, “We didn’t just build a landmark Gurdwara Sahib, but a community for our next generation to come to.”he was the loveliest and most friendliest person I meet.
Daljit Singh Shergill arrived in the West Midlands in 1961, to meet his younger brother and father who had fought in World War II. He was an active custodian and was part of a union fighting injustices in the workplace. He was a formidable sportsman and played tug of war professionally as a team captain.He became baptised into Sikhism in 1979
IShergill Sahib as President of Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick raised £1.4 million in 1990. Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick was completed in 2002 and it is the largest Gurdwara in Europe, three storeys high building with area of about 70,000 square metres
Daljit Singh Shergill worked tirelessly to educate, uplift and enlighten everyone in the NRI community. His basic message was “Freedom is your birth-right, take Amrit and be free from kaljug. He financially supported local and worldwide to chaatities such as Tsunami and Romania.He became Sandwell Sports Personality of the Year aand started the first Sikh Games under the banner of Shaheedi Tournaments
Being a member of Labour Party, he was very close ties with politicians such as Adrian Bailey, Tom Watson, John Spellar, Darren Copper, Lord Kang and Councillor Hussain. Along with he started a Sikh school in Smethwick was one of his dream.
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